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 men in the world, but He comes to them by His Word: the good of this Word being revealed to us by that in the Divine Personality which is called the Son of God, and the truth of it by that which is called the Son of man.

Thus then we learn that the One Supreme Being, whom the Scriptures reveal for our adoration and worship, is the Lord Jesus Christ: He being Jehovah in His humanity. Jesus Christ, under the dispensation of Christianity, is the new name of Jehovah God. Hence it is written, "There is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved"; and that "at the name of Jesus every knee should bow": Jehovah, by coming to His temple—the temple of His body, by becoming flesh and dwelling among us, came into a new relationship to His creatures, and it is because of this that He revealed Himself under a new name; under every name He is the Word, because He is in the esse of all that it reveals; but under the name of Jesus Christ. He became the living embodiment of all the truth which it contains. It is He who by means of the truth of His Word will execute His judgment, and mercifully accomplish all that He intended by His promise to come again.

The presentation of this doctrine was felt to be essential to a right understanding of those views of the general subject which we have undertaken to consider. It seemed important that we should, at the outset, know something of Him "who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty," that we should be reminded that in all cases of His coming, it is the one same Supreme Being, mercifully adapting Himself to the varied requirements of His Church on earth.

In the next chapter we shall endeavour to illustrate some